Supreme Court of Florida, 2004

The Florida Supreme Court affirmed the district court’s judgment that the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) owed no special duty of care to the decedents and therefore could not be held liable under the state’s waiver of sovereign immunity.

The Florida Supreme Court dismissed three noncapital defendants’ habeas petitions as unauthorized because they sought collateral relief available, if at all, through motions in the sentencing courts under rule 3.850.